Physics papers reflect current public debate

BOTH Leaving Certificate physics papers yesterday used plenty of real-life and topical applications of the subject.

ASTI’s Edel McInerney welcomed a higher level question on Newton’s Law of Gravity about the international space station and felt that a question on nuclear fission reactors was also in line with public debate.

Some students might not have expected the experiment questions on the pendulum and monochromatic light which both appeared in 2006.